Ranger is a RA (Returns Authorisation) logger. What this means,
is that it is used to log log all the Warranties and Credits that come back to your
workplace.

This program was written for my work. I was using a .txt file in notepad to keep
track of all the claims that came in. This was not very good, as it was very rigid
and hard to maintain. I wanted to make a more easy to maintain program. A program
that with advanced search facilities, also the odd statistics wouldn't hurt. I wrote
Ranger, in a way to come up with a suitable program, also i used
Ranger to learn all about C#. Ranger was actually
my first C# program I wrote. I use Ranger on a daily basis, as
I currently work processing Warranties and Credits for a Computer Wholesaler.
Ranger has a nice GUI that i pleasing to the eye. it is very handy
to keep tracks of all the Open and closed claims that come in through RA.

Ranger is written in C#, and it used the .Net v2 framework (it
requires .net v2 to run)

Ranger Features:

Easy To Use

Keeps Track of your records

Can enter anyone as a customer

An Item code can have an associated Description (this can be as long as you want!)

All off the records are completely search able

Auto-Generated RA numbers

Can find out all claims referenced to a particular client

Can filter out Closed jobs, so it just shows what is left Open

Find out who claimed against a particular item

Comprehensive statistics:

Total Open to Closed Warranties

Total Open to Closed Credits

Ratio of Warranties to Credits

Shows the top 3-30 Customers who have the most Claims

Shows the top 3-30 Items that have been claimed for (including and excluding Quantities!)

Unlimited number of items per claim

Unlimited quantity of a particular item for a claim

Detailed text logging facility.

Data is all saved as a .XML files, so you can load up the data files in any XML
compatible program. (You just need to add .XML to the filenames!)

If you have any suggestions or comments about Ranger, please go
to the
Contact Section

FIXED: The Edit window now resizes the column of the items codes properly

FIXED: Ambiguity in the Search Results - more details now

FIXED: Search window now can be sized as needed

v1.2.0.5 (6 Mar 2008)

ADDED: Now the user can choose what font to use for the Edit Items Lists. (changed
via the Preferences)

ADDED: In the EditWindow, the user can now double-click on the items to change the
quantity

ADDED: Statistics - now you can have a variable amount of items displayed

FIXED: in the Ranger Main Screen, Cancelling a Add/Edit of a Credit/Warranty no
longer redraws the list.

UPDATED: the Main Ranger Cases now show the filtered lists with #/total way.

UPDATED: Changed the Keyboard shortcuts so that they use the ALT key instead of
the CTRL.

UPDATED: Added more details to the Statistic Bars

v1.2.0.1 (16 November 2007)

FIXED: The toolbar panel, the buttons were uneven in height

FIXED: On some systems, the toolbar buttons "About" and "Exit"
were swapped around.

FIXED: The Menu up top, "Close Claim" and "About" needed to
be swapped around.

v1.2.0.0 (8 November 2007)

FIXED: Got rid of the custom buttons. had too many drawing issues. Did them another
way - They work better now.

FIXED: Column display and setup.

FIXED: Made case description (Main window) less cluttered!

FIXED: Miscellaneous Small bugs fixed

FIXED: If the database has been changed, it will reflect this properly

FIXED: When Ranger started up, it didn't present a filtered list. this is fixed
now

FIXED: One of the Stats buttons was setup wrong. fixed

FIXED: If Ranger started up without an preferences file present, it would produce
an exception. fixed.

ADDED: Pull-Down Menus to make Ranger more accessible

ADDED: Open/New to the Pull down menu.

ADDED: The functionality to Open/New/Save As code for the files

ADDED: When you select an item from the list to Edit, it will reselect it when you
finish editing

ADDED: Introduced Icons to the program. It looks nicer now :)

v1.1.5.4 (27 October 2007)

First Public Release

Fixed: About window - Remade it to show more/correct information

TODO: Since Ranger was written initially only to be used by me, and now it is released
to the general public, I need to change the way it writes the data files (as there
was no Open option - as it used rigid filenames). Need to implement a Open/Save/Save
As option.